# Band

Band or BAND may refer to:

## Places

* Bánd, a village in Hungary
* Band, Iran, a village in Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
* Band, Mureș, a commune in Romania
* Band-e Majid Khan, a village in Bukan County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran

## People

* Band (surname), various people with the surname

## Arts, entertainment, and media
### Music

* Musical ensemble, a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music
** Band (rock and pop), a small ensemble that plays rock or pop
** Concert band, an ensemble of woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments
** Dansband, band playing popular music for a partner-dancing audience
** Jazz band, a musical ensemble that plays jazz music
** Marching band, a group of instrumental musicians who generally perform outdoors
** School band, a group of student musicians who rehearse and perform instrumental music
* The Band, a Canadian-American rock and roll group
** The Band (album), The Band's eponymous 1969 album
* "Bands" (song), by American rapper Comethazine
* "The Band", a 2002 single by Mando Diao

### Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

* Band, nickname of Brazilian television network Rede Bandeirantes
* The Band (film), a 1978 Israeli film
* The Band (musical), a 2017 musical by Tim Firth with the music of Take That
* "Band" (Not Going Out), a 2012 television episode

## Clothing, jewelry, and accessories

* Armband or arm band
** Smart band a band with electronic component
*** Microsoft Band, a smart band with smartwatch features from the software giant
* Bandolier or bandoleer, an ammunition belt
* Bands (neckwear), two pieces of cloth fitted around the neck as part of formal clothing for clergy, academics, and lawyers
* Belt (clothing), a flexible band or strap, typically made of leather or heavy cloth, and worn around the waist
* Strap, an elongated flap or ribbon, usually of fabric or leather
* Wedding band, a metal ring indicating the wearer is married

## Military

* Bands (Italian Army irregulars), 19th- and 20th-century military units in the service of the Italian "Regio Esercito"
* Female order of the Band, a medieval military order native to Spain
* Order of the Band, a medieval military order native to Spain

## Science and technology

* Band (algebra), an idempotent semigroup
* Band (order theory), a solid subset of an ordered vector space that contains its supremums
* Band (radio), a range of frequencies or wavelengths in radio and radar, specifically:
** Frequency band
** LTE frequency bands used for cellphone data
** Shortwave bands
** UMTS frequency bands used for cellphones
* BAND (software), a mobile app that facilitates group communication
* Band cell, a type of white blood cell
* Bird banding, placing a numbered metal band on a bird's leg for identification
* Electronic band structure of electrons in solid-state physics
* Gastric band, a human weight-control measure
* Signaling (telecommunications):
** In-band signaling
** Out-of-band
* Birds Are Not Dinosaurs, or BAND, a controversial stance on the origin of birds

## Society and government

* Band (First Nations Canada), the primary unit of First Nations Government in Canada
* Band society, a small group of humans in a simple form of society
* Tribe (Native American), a tribe, band, nation, or other group or community of Indigenous peoples in the United States

## Other uses

* Rubber band
* The Band (professional wrestling), the Total Nonstop Wrestling name for the professional wrestling stable New World Order